Longstone of Minchinhampton

A late Neolithic or early Bronze Age standing stone on Minchinhampton Common in Gloucestershire, standing 2.3 m high and made of oolitic limestone. The stone is perforated by two large and several smaller natural holes caused by weathering, and is believed to be the closing slab from a destroyed burial chamber or portal dolmen. Local folklore held that the holes had curative powers, and children with whooping cough or rickets were passed through them. A fallen stone 11 m to the southwest, now built into a dry stone wall, may have formed a pair with the Longstone. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.